Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:26:19 +0200 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netbooting ROCK64 Message-ID: <20180712162619.c2946e4ec262319e0c0ebb7b@bidouilliste.com> In-Reply-To: <1531404460.66719.26.camel@freebsd.org> References: <1531333209.1596.0@hraggstad.unrelenting.technology> <20180712120405.a16a2733473400e899f34d2f@bidouilliste.com> <1531392570.1456.0@hraggstad.unrelenting.technology> <20180712160051.ab6447bad4d97395552c3a5d@bidouilliste.com> <1531404460.66719.26.camel@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 08:07:40 -0600
Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-07-12 at 16:00 +0200, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> > > env set bootargs boot.nfsroot.server=3D${serverip}=A0
> > > boot.nfsroot.path=3D<PATH> comconsole_speed=3D${baudrate}
> > > tftpboot ${kernel_addr_r} loader.efi
> > > bootefi ${kernel_addr_r} ${fdtcontroladdr}
> >=20
> > =A0I've never used nfs with loader like this, do you control the dhcp ?
> > =A0If so just set the correct rootpath in it and in uboot just do :
> > =A0setenv boot_targets dhcp
> > =A0saveenv
>=20
> This is really not a good enough answer. =A0Many people have dhcp, not
> nearly as many have easy access to control the config of that dhcp
> server.
Yes and it seems to work with rpi3.
But u-boot on rpi is using 2018.03, not 2017.09 like on Rock64.
I want to be sure that his setup is working.
> It MUST be possible to set tftp and/or nfs boot parms from some
> persisent config on the system being booted, or we just don't have a
> viable netboot solution.
>=20
> Pre-efi, all you had to do for netbooting was
>=20
> =A0 setenv loaderdev net
> =A0 setenv rootpath serverip:/path/to/rootfs
> =A0 boot
>=20
> It sure would be nice if we could maintain that level of simplicity
> with efi uboot.
>=20
> -- Ian
--=20
Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>
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